The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-02-23
BRIC-A-BRAC.
HER ANSWER.

The ligrS grew dlm ID ner eyes.
you're going to be married. she echoed
low,
Her voice had steady tone:
Il hope You'll be happy where 'er you so.
\ cough hid q little moan.
q know that your bride will be good and
true.
You never could love any other"
She steadily looked in his dark eyes blue;
q tender pou JOY, my brother.
lin going to be marricd-that is, l hope
10 be, though | hardly know
Dear love. shall longer pine and nope!
trcmblc tor fear Of No. +"
Tie color that out of her face had fed
F.! Came back with deeper hue.
WHY. isn't it funny, she shyly said,
That I'm to Dc married, too?'
Time is the best preacher.
Hard to bcat-A china egg.
Spe!l-bounG-Th dictionary.
y professional racc-Doctors.
Always in usc-Thc letter S.
The weigh of all tlesh-SiXtecn ounces
to The pound.
There arc about 700, 900 kernels of wheat
to !! &r!Shel
It's quite natural that boy should blub-
Der when he is whalcd.
The riches which always take to them
selves wiDgs-Ost-richcs.
The ancient Roman began his dinner
with eggs and finished it with apples.
\ health journal says that marble top
tables arc unhealthy. They do look pale.
When summoned to do so, q man gees
to court for the sake Of appearance.
WHY are you so distant?' said tramp
to bccfSteak in the restaurant window.
Marine blue" is rightly termed a seas
on-able color.
A Maryland justice decides that hus-
band is liable for his wife's SANDER.
Where there is a will there is a way to
break it.
\ bent pin can't pull very much, but,
Great Scott! how it can push
\ hand il the bird is worth two in the
bush-cspecially if it happens TO be brlar
bush.
The power Of the press is best felt by
him who gets lis fingers caught in its me-
chanism.
Sarah Bernhardt is five feet eleven inches
tall, but her other dimensions are not worth
mentioning.
To keep apples from rotting, eat them
up, is the gratuitous advice of one OF our
agricultural exchanges.
In recent sermon Henry Ward Beecher
said: Il have no sympathy with eight-hour
men who have fourteen hour wives"
The man with single English eyeglass
looks as if he had pain N his eye, and in
such condition presents an odd spectacle
What q small population this world
would have if all the grumblers were out
OF it.
4 new style of writing paper is called
Dude" We infer that it is Il kind Of
foolscap.
Couples court before they are married,
and they must, also go to court before they
are divorced.
4 countryman speaking of an individual
notorious for his assurance said he had
"cheek enough for two rows of teeth.
Tie rain falls alike upon the Just and the
unjust: but it is the unjust who steal the
umbrellas, and let the just feel the rain.
An eminent historian traces base ball
back to the time when Rebecca went down
to the well with L pitcher and caught Isaac
If we are going to quarrel with England,
70: Heavens sake let Us wait until Mr..
John L. Sullivan's arm gets well.
4 correspondent inquiries: "Is it wrong
to cheat lawycr:' Possibly not; but it is
!; pretty hard OBJ to>dndcrtake.
Says an exchange: Women should never
use ti.t-iron on their husbands to smooth
out matrimonial difficulties. .
WHAT in a woman is called curiosity"
in nan is grandiloquently magnifed into
the spirit Of inquiry"
According to that wise man, Matthew
Arnold, ''the poor are very much what the
iich made them"
Now Goth the coal dealer and plumber
rejoice, while the ice man can't give it
i weigh.
Ueari! at the theatre: Shc-Thay, Guth,
do YOU perceive that lithp? He-Ther
t&iniy not; you don't lithp any more than l
90.
The father of his country is said first to
have learned the pleasure of travelling on
four wheels when he took Il hack at the
Cherry tree.
Why women kiss each other is
An undetermined question,
Unless the darlings would by this
Give man a sweet suggestion.
When you see a good COW, buy her.
When you have a good COW, keep her.
When you own a bad COW, sell her.
Some people have no more sense than to
ask man who is addressed by the title Of
Colonel in what war he was.
Why is a wrinkled face like we'll
ploughed field? Because it is furrowed
with care, Of course.
They used to call it matrimony. but a
crusty, disappointed old bachelor calls it
matter O money Well, it may be some
times.
It was the newly-hedged bee that, after
vcnturing out of the hive on wet day,